Moreno-Garcia is one of those authors I will read no matter what, which is a bit inconvenient because she is also someone who bops around genres so I never entirely know what I'm getting.
This time I got historical fiction and also a crash course in second temple Jewish figures who I had already been introduced to in some podcasts lectures on the kings and queens of Israel.
This was definitely a Friday night book - trying to read it piecemeal over the week was, as the pokemon say, not very effective, but as soon as I had an evening, it just started to pull me in and gave me a real appreciation for the way that Moreno-Garcia pulls narratives together.